Up in the audience seats, Yugito and Samui, who had been closely monitoring the chaotic battlefield below, finally breathed a massive sigh of relief when they saw the Raikage appear.
They obviously weren't worried about their own safety in the Limited Tsukuyomi World, but with the Raikage's imposing arrival, the Hidden Cloud Village's shattered dignity was finally about to be fully restored!
That's right.
The [Raikage] down below actually appeared completely one-hundred-percent normal.
Facing the capture of his comrade, whose life or death was currently unknown, he was visibly filled with booming rage.
Moments after the [Raikage] touched down, his two most trusted aides in this world, [Darui] and [Shii]—unable to physically keep up with the Raikage's monstrous speed—arrived slightly late and respectfully took their positions on either side of him.
Everything looked so harmonious.... so utterly perfect.
Sometimes it's just like this—only through the sheer trauma of horrifying comparisons can one truly discover the fragile beauty in life.
Now, the two kunoichi were desperately praying to any god that would listen: as long as Raikage-sama remained completely unchanged, we will happily accept it even if Killer B turns out to be an absolute, irredeemable pervert later!
But clearly, the gods in this cursed universe weren't answering prayers today!
"Damn invaders... oooooh?" The [Raikage]'s booming voice suddenly shifted tones.
"Ah?"
"Wait, would Raikage-sama actually say something like that?" Yugito whispered.
"Could the Raikage-sama in this world just have a character setting of desperately thirsting for new talent?" Samui offered weakly.
Yugito and Samui had already sensed something was terribly, terribly wrong, but they still stubbornly clung to their very last shred of hope.
However, that final hope was violently shattered mere seconds later.
"[Raikage]-sama, what about us?" [Darui] asked, his voice sounding weirdly... whiny and jealous.
"Get lost!" the [Raikage] snapped at his aides.
Well, this wasn't even a subtle hint anymore—it was being outright, blatantly stated!
"You two there!" The [Raikage] suddenly pointed past [Samui]'s unconscious body, looking directly at the Akatsuki group with hungry eyes.
"Why don't you ditch this pathetic crusade and come be my new left and right hands instead?!"
"How dare you insult me with your filthy words! Do you want to die that badly..." Hikari, being blatantly propositioned like this for the first time in her life, became so furiously angry that her hair began to flutter without wind as her chakra erupted, releasing a terrifying pressure.
"Who the hell is talking to you, little girl?!" The [Raikage] scoffed, waving her off dismissively.
"I was talking to those two gorgeous specimens right behind you!" He pointed directly at Makoto and [Konan].
"?!"
Uchiha Hikari completely froze in place, absolutely petrified!
Even after experiencing so many mind-breaking stimuli in this world, she still couldn't handle this specific critical hit.
Wait... did she really look like a literal child to him?!
Neither distinctly male nor female enough to warrant his perverted attention?!
Uchiha Hikari began to doubt her own existence.
After finally regaining her senses, she quickly turned around and looked pitifully at Makoto, desperately seeking validation.
"Of course not, Hikari is a very cute girl," Makoto smiled gently, thoroughly comforting her wounded pride.
"He's clearly just an absolute, unhinged pervert. You really don't need to hold yourself to a degenerate's twisted aesthetic standards."
"Besides," Makoto added, his smile growing darker.
"if I'm not totally mistaken, those two aides the Raikage brought along already have an improper filthy relationship with him anyway."
"What?!" Hikari was comforted so thoroughly that her mood instantly recovered, though she was still deeply surprised by Makoto's bold accusation.
She shifted her Sharingan gaze toward [Darui] and [Shii].
She hadn't actually met these two before, but she had personally encountered the real Raikage back at Hozuki Castle.
Just as Makoto had said, the real Raikage showed absolutely zero romantic interest in women, nor in men, caring strictly about his younger brother Killer B, his muscle and the Hidden Cloud Village.
Could it be that the [Raikage] in this Limited Tsukuyomi World was truly the complete, polar opposite?
Instead of being totally disinterested in romance, he was a massive bisexual degenerate who would literally hit on anyone?!
"Hehe, that's exactly right. You actually saw right through us—you're truly as sharp and breathtaking as ice and snow," the [Raikage] smirked lecherously at Makoto.
'Sharp as ice and snow...'
'Please, just stop.'
Makoto felt like he was about to vomit.
"How did you even guess that?" Hikari asked, morbidly curious.
"He first explicitly invited us to become his new 'right and left hands,' and then immediately told his actual aides to 'get lost' when they got jealous. There's an obvious, disgusting connection there," Makoto explained flatly.
"Moreover, since he directly included me in that invitation, it clearly shows his orientation is a complete free-for-all—a total pervert. So, what exactly do you think a pervert uses his 'right and left hands' for?"
Makoto provided a horrifyingly reasonable explanation.
This flawless logic instantly gained everyone's grim approval.
However, this exact explanation left the two Hidden Cloud kunoichi up in the audience seats in dead, traumatized silence.
They would absolutely never be able to look directly at the two men who proudly held the official title of "Raikage's Right and Left Hands" in the real world ever again!
Especially since they actually knew Darui and Shii personally and considered them respected comrades!
Inevitably, some deeply cursed, highly inappropriate images violently surfaced in their minds.
Darui and Shii, acting as the Raikage's literal "right and left hands," alone together in the Hidden Cloud Village's Hokage-style office...
That's right!
The Raikage in the real world showed absolutely zero interest in women—this they could confidently confirm.
But whether he was secretly interested in men... that was truly hard to say!
After all, the Raikage was unusually close with his younger brother, Killer B.
Huh?
Wait.
"Where the hell is Killer B?! Did the Raikage in this world not bring him along?" Yugito suddenly observed the situation below and raised a highly crucial question.
After all this time, Killer B still hadn't made an appearance.
Could it be that in this messed-up timeline, Killer B and the Raikage actually didn't get along well?
"You two beauties," the [Raikage] continued, flexing his massive 8 packs at Makoto and [Konan].
"Though I may not be quite as buff as my father, the previous Raikage AS—who could effortlessly 'capture' both the Two-Tails and the Eight-Tails with his signature One-Finger Nukite—my Lightning Lariat can still make you both feel quite comfortable. Don't you worry about a thing."
"Wait, hold the fuck up. What did he just call his father, the Third Raikage?" Makoto aggressively dug at his ear, entirely convinced he'd just suffered auditory hallucinations.
"AS," [Konan] replied flatly.
"...Come again?" Makoto was utterly bewildered.
"The successive Raikages of the Hidden Cloud Village are all just called A, or 'Ei.' To properly distinguish between them, they simply add another letter as part of their official name," [Konan] explained with the patience of a saint.
"The Third Raikage was called AS, or you could loosely call him 'Einus'."
"And what about this meathead?" Makoto pointed.
"AZ. Or you could call him 'Aize' (AIDS)."
"...That name honestly sounds terrifying just hearing it out loud." Makoto shivered.
He felt that a highly infectious, incurable disease name quite perfectly suited the degenerate Raikage of this Limited Tsukuyomi World.
"In the Hidden Cloud Village, only the Raikage is officially qualified to use two letters. Even the Eight-Tails Jinchuriki, as the Raikage's designated partner, is no exception to this strict rule."
"So what the hell is Killer B called then? KB?" Makoto asked entirely expressionlessly.
He was already so thoroughly numb to this universe's bullshit, whatever stupid name Killer B was stuck with wouldn't affect his joys or sorrows anymore.
Suddenly, two incredibly loud, obnoxious shouts echoed down from the night sky—
"Hahaha! Bro, I'm here!"
"Everyone, look at me! Your glorious Lord Kiradio makes a dazzling entrance!!"
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